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SubponticatePoster posted:What they did with Kaiden/Ashley in 3 sucked because I had all of these saves where Kaiden was a greasy spot on the floor and then it turned out Ash was a boring drunk lamppost and Kaiden turned into a pretty chill (and useful) dude. Ravel posted:Even aside from all that, every species has basically one culture - they're either all space elves or noble space warriors or space pirates or whatever. The humans are all identical too in a nebulous American way. FronzelNeekburm fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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K/A are the worst thing about the trilogy save the ending. Can we agree on that?
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Nov 12, 2014 05:07
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Waltzing Along posted:K/A are the worst thing about the trilogy save the ending. Can we agree on that? That and only one Salarian teammate. Come on, Kirrahe, let's go save the galaxy!
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Nov 12, 2014 05:12
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Drifter posted:"gently caress me Qunari-style, Shepard. No, I meant doggy-style. They're all animals to me." wait, is that for real? How do I replicate this if it's real
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Nov 12, 2014 05:40
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Aces High posted:wait, is that for real? How do I replicate this if it's real What, you didn't see that renegade interrupt during the end of Horizon?
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Nov 12, 2014 05:45
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Aces High posted:wait, is that for real? How do I replicate this if it's real It's tricky. You have to: 1 - Paragon Conrad in ME1. 2 - Renegade the reporter. 3 - Kill Wrex. 4 - Save the Council. 5 - Appoint Udina. And you have to play as Sentinel. And be a female who romanced Liara and has initiated a romance with Jacob. AND you have to bring a loyal Zaeed and Jack on the mission with you. No one else can be loyal yet. Then you get that line.
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^^^ - what was the 'K/A' thing you mentioned in your other post? What does that stand for?Aces High posted:wait, is that for real? How do I replicate this if it's real Haha, no, that's not real. I was just paraphrasing her general xenophobic attitude in a manner that would mimic the creative artistry of the Bioware writers. Drifter fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Nov 12, 2014 06:56
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Although there is a line in ME 3 where she cracks wise about how good it is to be killing "Flashlight Heads" (Geth) again, because it's so much less morally ambiguous. So yeah, still totally space racist.
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Nov 12, 2014 06:59
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Skippy McPants posted:Although there is a line in ME 3 where she cracks wise about how good it is to be killing "Flashlight Heads" (Geth) again, because it's so much less morally ambiguous. To be fair, though, the war up until that point has been entirely about killing Geth (and solving daddy issues).
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Nov 12, 2014 07:18
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Also a few other characters mention that they're glad the Geth are gone if you decide to kill them, Garrus included.
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Nov 12, 2014 07:20
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The geth were just betrayal.exe Not worth keeping them around.
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Nov 12, 2014 14:18
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On my Renegade run of the series I killed the Council, supported the Terra Firma Candidate, appointed Udina as the representative, kept Ashley, and have generally dicked over non-humans every chance I get. Manifest destiny! SPACE U-S-A! SPACE U-S-A! SPACE U-S-A! 
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Nov 12, 2014 15:09
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Save Kaidan for space Canada.
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sitchelin posted:On my Renegade run of the series I killed the Council, supported the Terra Firma Candidate, appointed Udina as the representative, kept Ashley, and have generally dicked over non-humans every chance I get. Manifest destiny! SPACE U-S-A! SPACE U-S-A! SPACE U-S-A! that sounds like my Space Racist run, even named my Shep Jim-Crow (because I'm not very creative) and made him all blonde and blue-eyed. My Renegade run wasn't really a true Renegade run, it was more pragmatist and "not taking any of this poo poo" and that's how I was able to justify not killing Wrex, he'd been my space-soldier bro for the whole game so all he needed was some shouting at
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If you made a space Aryan, a Sparyan if you would, wouldn't you want to name him Hans or Franz or Adolf?
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hey man, just because I hate aliens doesn't mean I want to murder them all, I just want them to get out of humanity's way  That and the idea of a germanic name and Mark Meer's voice just...doesn't jive
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Aces High posted:hey man, just because I hate aliens doesn't mean I want to murder them all, I just want them to get out of humanity's way Doesn't work when your character looks like Billy Dee Williams either.
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Nov 13, 2014 22:20
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MA-Horus posted:If you made a space Aryan, a Sparyan if you would, wouldn't you want to name him Hans or Franz or Adolf? I named him German 
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This may be a silly question, but does anyone have a link to the series of fanart/webcomics this ME2 avatar was from? The original post was here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3335211&userid=132942, but it was waffleimages, and they're all gone...  , and they weren't sourced.And the poster doesn't have PMs.  I figure the regulars in this thread might be my best shot.
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Nov 19, 2014 04:20
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Curious, does the multiplayer still exist? Or did that get shut down or die?
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Nov 19, 2014 12:33
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Still works and you won't have any trouble finding lobbies. The thread here is still going, too: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3499990
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Last weekend I finally finished my back to back trilogy run for the first time. It was good. However, the most disappointing thing about the series is how mission design gets worse with every game. ME1's Ferros mission was the best. Land on a planet with little information, assess the situation, help the resistance, explore ruins, uncover space secrets and plot twists, kill a huge alien, advance plot. By the time you get to ME3 it's literally corridor->cutscene->room->cutscene. I played mostly paragon soldier through all 3, ME1 on veteran, 2 and 3 on insanity. Romanced Liara, got Kasumi, and Zaeed killed in 2. Got Miranda and Mordin killed in 3. Cured the Genophage, made peace between the Quarians and the Geth, picked Synthesis because EDI and Legion (who both have reaper code in them) made me sympathetic towards synthetics. I essentially became Saren in the end. Assaulted the Citadel with the help of Geth to usher in a new form of existence. Favorite role playing moment was beating the poo poo out of the Quarian Admiral, throwing him off my ship, and then lying to my subordinates about it - gotta appear professional. EDIT. Can you bring Legion to Tali's loyalty mission in ME2? Renegade option: "Appoint Legion as Tali's lawyer". White Phosphorus fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 04:29
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White Phosphorus posted:Can you bring Legion to Tali's loyalty mission in ME2? Yes, I do this every time because it's funny to gently caress with the quarians
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Nov 20, 2014 04:51
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I feel like even mechanically, the gameplay improved in some areas and backpedalled in others. I don't really like global cooldowns, for example. And I liked biotics not just being magic missiles but having a variety of effects.
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White Phosphorus posted:I played mostly paragon soldier through all 3  Aristobulus posted:I feel like even mechanically, the gameplay improved in some areas and backpedalled in others. I don't really like global cooldowns, for example. And I liked biotics not just being magic missiles but having a variety of effects.
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Plus there is no greater satisfaction than having Liara chuck a singularity and then biotic throw some Cerberus chucklefucks like the scrubs they are
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DarkHorse posted:I disagree, global cooldowns made sure there weren't big variations in combat length. If you had fewer than five enemies, you just used every power and wiped the floor. If there were many more than that, you blew your wad then hid in cover waiting forever for things to recharge. With global cooldowns, the tempo was pretty consistent, and it favored strategies where you used quick-recharge powers frequently and saved the really big ones for when you need them. I always thought they should have done both ; make global cooldowns, but shorten them if you vary them up. Give incentive to have extra powers instead of "cooldowns up, use that one power you maxxed out instantly.
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White Phosphorus posted:Last weekend I finally finished my back to back trilogy run for the first time. It was good. However, the most disappointing thing about the series is how mission design gets worse with every game. I don't know if it's the most disappointing thing but it's definitely up there. Top 3, probably.
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White Phosphorus posted:Last weekend I finally finished my back to back trilogy run for the first time. It was good. However, the most disappointing thing about the series is how mission design gets worse with every game. ME1's Ferros mission was the best. Land on a planet with little information, assess the situation, help the resistance, explore ruins, uncover space secrets and plot twists, kill a huge alien, advance plot. By the time you get to ME3 it's literally corridor->cutscene->room->cutscene. Yeah. Shame that there were so few "story missions" or whatever in ME1. Completing them really felt like I'd sorted out a big problem while solving a mystery like some like 007/Sherlock Holmes combo. Feros was good, but I liked Noveria better, despite it be more predictable. Something about the whole 'shooting up a secret facility' thing is pretty cool to me.
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Waltzing Along posted:K/A are the worst thing about the trilogy save the ending. Can we agree on that? no, they are better than tali or liara
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hectik posted:Yeah. Shame that there were so few "story missions" or whatever in ME1. Completing them really felt like I'd sorted out a big problem while solving a mystery like some like 007/Sherlock Holmes combo. Feros was good, but I liked Noveria better, despite it be more predictable. Something about the whole 'shooting up a secret facility' thing is pretty cool to me. I hate the first part of Noveria where we have to get permission to go outside in a mako when we have one of our own in the ship that we drop from orbit all the time. A whole bunch of running back and forth through a lifeless station, and no option to punch out the woman guarding the elevator.
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Yeah but ME1 involves being a douche to that Alliance admiral who doesn't like aliens on your ship. "it's my ship I'm a spectre blow me. Sir."
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DarkHorse posted:Have you played any of the other classes? If not, you really owe it to yourself to play some of the others. I did the same thing you did (well, I was only paragon soldier through 2 because 3 wasn't out yet) but I tried Adept and now I have a hard time playing anything else (except Vanguard). Adepts in ME1 are hilariously broken, but by 3 they get really fun to play when you map powers to buttons and limit how much you pause the action, and how you can bank them around corners. Plus, biotic and tech explosions! Yeah, I was thinking about doing a no gun renegade femshep run or something. Looking at the thread apparently there is a whole dimension to space magic that I didn't know was there. I spent all 3 games setting up base of fire and enveloping, or ordering assault and supporting. Also, whoever was joking about playing as a reaper may be on to something. Some kind of Start Control II/FTL/MOO2/RPG hybrid where you play as a derelict star ship/space monster that suddenly becomes aware. The plot of the game would be to discover your origin and purpose. Then you fly around the galaxy and subjugate/help various alien empires that you encounter.
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White Phosphorus posted:Yeah, I was thinking about doing a no gun renegade femshep run or something. Looking at the thread apparently there is a whole dimension to space magic that I didn't know was there. I spent all 3 games setting up base of fire and enveloping, or ordering assault and supporting. I'm on this train. Biotic Fem-shep has really opened my eyes to the awesomeness that is Mass Effect. The series was already one of my favorites, even discounting the flaws, but realizing that Jennifer Hale is such an awesome voice actor has renewed my interest. Renegade fem-shep is, hands down, the best.
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Mister Macys posted:This may be a silly question, but does anyone have a link to the series of fanart/webcomics this ME2 avatar was from? Google search by image finds one result, here. http://starscream.dreamwidth.org/icons My guess would be he custom created it, and its not part of a larger comic. It does have a neat style though.
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Sorry in advance since this isn't technically ME3 related, but I didn't know where else to ask or look without getting the next 2 games spoiled for me. I'm playing the series for the first time finally and just finished ME1. Why during the ending of ME1 is everybody still freaking out about the Reapers returning? The AI guy on Virmire specifically says that if Sovereign is stopped before it opens the Citadel Relay, that the Reapers are all trapped in Dark Space because the Keepers won't open the relay anymore. Well....we stopped it, then 5 minutes later everybody's making speeches about banding together to stop the Reapers. What the gently caress? I'm guessing the answer is "Well we wanted to make more games, so just ignore that part"+
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They can still fly to the galaxy conventionally. Coming in via the Citadel Relay is just their usual master plan.
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Lycus posted:They can still fly to the galaxy conventionally. Coming in via the Citadel Relay is just their usual master plan. The whole point is that unless they were just trying to shave off the final year of travel, not being able to mass effect would have meant an extra several centuries/millenia. Or was that what happened with the Rachni Wars? Those were 300 years ago in the timeline, right? Harbinger was just SUPER impatient and that last monthlong bit of travel was just TOO MUCH for him, I guess.
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So their FTL drives are capable of traveling fast enough for that to be a relatively fast trip, they'd just rather pop out of the Citadel for extra surprise factor + taking over all the relays at once? That makes sense actually, thanks
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MrTheDevious posted:So their FTL drives are capable of traveling fast enough for that to be a relatively fast trip, they'd just rather pop out of the Citadel for extra surprise factor + taking over all the relays at once? Yeah. Coming in via the Citadel and controlling the network lets them instantly decapitate the most powerful nation(s) and isolate everyone else in systems, making for easy reaping with no losses. But they can still fly in if need be.
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